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| (...) That'll teach them to mess with the mob. "Mr. Bricks doesn't like it when a guy walks outta the room when he's talkin'. You ain't gonna be walkin' nowhere no more!" Regards, BOB!! (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Eric Brok wrote in message ... (...) <snipped reference that says Steve is paraphrasing someone else....> That's funny. I was born in Germany, and have definitely inherited the follow instructions gene. But since I married an Irish-Canadian, and had (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Drat. I just called S@H, and the Diving Expedition Explorer, #6560, is no longer available. Double-drat. In somewhat better news, the nice S@H operator said there is some hope that they will be getting more Giant Model Sets, #8277, so I ordered 4. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Bug in pause..?
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| (...) Well, it doesn't handle it at all well if you have your hands shifted over one letter. It returned no matches for: hs;scu rc[;ptrt Not that I expected it would, or think it should. Regards, BOB!! (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Actually, it did find it along with 18 other things; it just didn't find one thing like the first example. I must be fair about this, though it did include Saucer Scout in one of the possible answers. -Tom McD. (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Airshort Puttle was found Cuper Sar was NOT! Got 19 responses. Thanks for playing our game. We have some lovely parting gifts for you. -Tom McD. We'll have more, right after this... (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Hah! That was great! Every once in a while I consider buying a Belville set, but I can't seem to justify the cost for the very few pieces I want. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and do it anyway and give the unwanted parts and figs to my (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | FOTW- sail 'n' fly marina & the way things were
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| On my way home yesterday I stopped by the little local toystore, kind of a mom and pop place, and guess what they had sitting inside? A brand new sail and fly marina set. It was still list price but I didn't mind. It had apparently come from the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Steve Bliss wrote in message <369f3f93.3082410@lu...et.com>... (...) I'm not sure, but I think in recent years sales have been disappointing in Germany, even before Town Jr was released. See www.lego.com for the annual reports on 1997 and 1996. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Beaker wrote in message ... (...) the (...) They did for Paradisa, I've got a few sets... Steve (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Odd train of thought for the day: Germans are well-known for their orderly, follow-the-instructions approach to life.[1][2] According to hearsay, Germany is LEGO's biggest retail market. Town Jr. presents a reduced level of building in LEGO sets. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Tim McSweeney wrote in message ... (...) Hair.... (...) For a female Technic Fig, have a look at (URL) you want it with full navigation frames: (URL) select 'bits and pieces' from menu Eric Brok Visit LEGO ON MY MIND: (URL) Control section: (URL) (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Okie dokie, searches ending in "er" are no longer broken. I rewrote the character trigraph indexer...it's a bit simpler and even a bit faster. I'm still not truly sure why the script was getting a segmentation fault on large stored lists in (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: gender changers?
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| (...) Oops, got the first two round the wrong way. Never mind, its makes them all the more interesting :-) Grahame Reid (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| As a reminder, please don't seny anything to my voyager account. If you did and you didn't hear from me, I probably deleted it. That account gets 95% spam so I sweep it out. Decode the spamblock, it's not that hard. Thanks. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.co.den)
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| I told my daughter about this Luggage thread, and as a Terry Pratchett fan she right away built a Luggage. No, you can't stick minifig legs on a chest directly, but you can stick them handily into a standard 2x4 brick, plunk the chest on top of (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) them (...) name) a (...) and also (...) found (...) Tyco made the 2x2 flat with studs on both sides. I have a few, they are cool pieces. Tyco also made some 2x2 hinges that are 1 brick high (I think, don't have them here with me). They can (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I appreciate it when other do what I call "bodymonopoeia" :) I guess I should have been clearer: I don't think TLG is ready to retire minifigs so I thought such a message might get them back on the minifig track. But speaking of track, if (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well, no, but they do make them in yellow, which is 'flesh color' for the LEGOverse... J (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The Technic Figs aren't too bad, apart from the fact that they aren't modular. Wish List: Modular Technic Figs so I can swap leg secions, Arm Section, Heads, Hair.... Some Female Technic Figs. The guys are getting lonely.(1) Cheers Tim (1) (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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